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9786073193993

Mil de fiebre / A Thousand Fever

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-12-22
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
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Summary

En Mil de fiebre hay personas que necesitan desesperadamente creerse las historias que se cuentan a sí mismas.

Como Werner Gómez, un blogger de Salto, ermitaño, grafómano paranóico e incendiario, quien se dispone a trabajar en el proyecto más ambicioso y arriesgado de su vida: la Gran Novela Salteña.

Pero los reclamos de su madre y un descubrimiento fascinante y perturbador se interponen en el camino. O como Luis Bruno, periodista deportivo con trastornos de conducta, que tal vez esté atravesando su peor momento: su esposa lo abandonó y lo acaban de echar del trabajo. La oportunidad de cambiar la pisada asoma con un viaje a Salto, ciudad donde nació, para trabajar en un periódico local.

Hay un enigmático escritor de culto, tan prolífico y evasivo que incluso se duda de su existencia, a pesar de que toda una comunidad estudia su obra al detalle y le expresa públicamente una veneración infinita. Hay música, poesía y locura, una enfermiza obsesión por la salud y los alicamentos, una cadena de clínicas psiquiátricas muy popular entre la clase media, y un club secreto que organiza orgías escatológicas. Y existe un impulso sublime y sutil, misterioso y trascendental, que cuando se presenta es capaz de alterar la sangre y magnificar los sentidos; Werner lo llama “el vapor”. Una novela urgente, introspectiva y catártica, que interpela al lector mientras navega en un vértigo de literatura irreverente.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

In A Thousand Fever there are people who desperately need to believe the stories they tell themselves.
 
Like Werner Gómez, a blogger from Salto, hermit, paranoid graphologist and incendiary, who is preparing to work on the most ambitious and risky project of his life: the Great Salteña Novel.
 
But his mother's complaints and a fascinating and disturbing discovery stand in the way. Or like Luis Bruno, a sports journalist with behavior disorders, who may be going through the worst time in his life: his wife abandoned him and he was just fired from his job. The opportunity to change the path he’s on comes with a trip to Salto, the city where he was born, to work for a local newspaper.

There is an enigmatic cult writer, so prolific and elusive that even his existence is doubted, despite the fact that an entire community studies his work in detail and publicly expresses infinite veneration. There is music, poetry and madness, a sick obsession with health and drugs, a chain of psychiatric clinics very popular with the middle class, and a secret club that organizes eschatological orgies. And there is a sublime and subtle impulse, mysterious and transcendental, that when it occurs is capable of altering blood and magnifying the senses; Werner calls it "the steam". An urgent, introspective and cathartic novel, which challenges the reader while navigating a vertigo of irreverent literature.

Author Biography

Juan Andrés Ferreira (Montevideo, 1978). Trabaja en periodismo desde 1999. Se ha desempeñado como cronista, editor y crítico cinematográfico en diarios y revistas. Actualmente escribe en la sección Vida Cultural del semanario Búsqueda. Integró la antología El descontento y la promesa. Nueva/joven narrativa uruguaya (Ed. Trilce, 2008) y Género Oriental: Fantasía - Terror - Noir - Ciencia Ficción - Cosas raras (Irrupciones, 2017). Mil de fiebre es su primera novela.

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